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Artist, autistic, anarchist Laura Macdonald
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George Monbiot
about 16 hours ago
I had a great conversation with the wonderful
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through āDivide and Ruleā | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode Ā· Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Ā· 19/11/2025 Ā· 40m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-labour-negate-progressive-ideas-through-divide/id1837201724?i=1000737332325
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reposted by
Led By Donkeys
about 14 hours ago
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Just under 30 minutes, worth a listen :)
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Obama official laments that "Never Again" applies to everyone
According to Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz, outrage over the Gaza genocide results from not enough censorship and too much Holocaust education.
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/obama-official-laments-that-never?r=1v0bdx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 3 hours ago
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reposted by
Prof Bill McGuire
1 day ago
I would expect nothing else from these entitled parasites We need an elected second chamber NOW
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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āOut of touchā hereditary peers criticised for voting against workersā rights
Lords look āundemocratic and firmly against interest of working peopleā, say senior trade union and Labour figures
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/18/out-of-touch-peers-criticised-for-voting-against-workers-rights
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reposted by
MC Squared
1 day ago
Global warming is the byproduct of the lavish lifestyles of the 1%
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The appropriately named Enoch Burke sounds completely deranged. I hope he enjoys prison.
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reposted by
Good Law Project
1 day ago
The courts are forcing a 6 year old girl to keep the name of the man who raped her mother. No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuserās name. Itās time to change the system š
goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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The law has failed a woman and her child ā fight back
No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuserās name.Ā Itās time to change the system.
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/the-law-has-failed-a-woman-and-her-child-fight-back/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nothisname_crowdfunder_nothisname&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=18-11-2025
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"You just couldnāt trust refugees these days. Most of them initiated their own persecution and risked death to get here just because they wanted to stay in an asylum hotel in Essex where they could be abused by locals. That for them was living the dream. Well, there would be no more of that."
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Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish
We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/17/shabana-mahmood-puts-the-signs-up-britain-is-full-no-blacks-no-dogs-no-irish
1 day ago
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reposted by
Sooz Kempner
2 days ago
Releasing the Epstein Files, Nick Fuentes vs Daily Wire. ICE is coming to your town, Fetterman is falling down. Erika Kirk and JD Vance, Trump got in to Clintonās pants. RFK brings back small pox, Peter Thiel sells AI stocks. We didnāt start the fireā¦.
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reposted by
Ian Dunt
1 day ago
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
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A little humility and understanding goes a long way. "dismantling the myth that we live in a meritocracy ... is one of the most urgent changes needed in public life today."
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From 2018, still extremely relevant. "I see such organisations [as the IEA] as insidious and corrupting. I see them as the means by which money comes to dominate public life, without having to declare its hand. I see them as representing everything that has gone wrong with our politics."
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Invisible Hands
Dark money is undermining our democracies, and itās never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks
https://www.monbiot.com/2018/07/21/invisible-hands/
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reposted by
Prof Bill McGuire
1 day ago
Big Ag joins Big Oil & Gas to make the compromising of the Climate COP process complete
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists took part in Cop30, investigation finds
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/big-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-summit
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reposted by
We Own It
1 day ago
An open letter to the Chancellor: abandon this dangerous and damaging proposal. 53 academics of accounting and finance from UK universities explain why Rachel reeves should abandon the idea of new private finance for the NHS.
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An open letter to the Chancellor: abandon this dangerous and damaging proposal
In this open letter to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, 53 academics of accounting and finance from UK universities explain why she should abandon the idea of new private finance for the NHS.
https://weownit.org.uk/news/an-open-letter-to-the-chancellor-abandon-this-dangerous-and-damaging-proposal/
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reposted by
We Own It
3 days ago
Private finance in the NHS has failed: it has diverted scarce resources away from patient care towards debt repayments. We're handing in our petition to the DoH tomorrow to demand that the Government doesn't repeat the same mistake. Take action with
@simonforstroud.bsky.social
vist.ly/4esvx
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reposted by
Ellie Chowns MP
2 days ago
The govt's proposed new asylum laws are impractical, ineffectual, and outright cruel. Aping the rhetoric of Reform won't fix the real issues in this country; it will only stir up more false divisions and endanger already vulnerable communities.
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reposted by
Prem Sikka
2 days ago
Thames Water bidder offering £1bn extra cash injection. 30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments. Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced. Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.
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Thames Water bidder says it is offering £1bn extra cash injection
Castle Water says restructuring plans do not go far enough and extra funds will help resolve pollution crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/17/thames-water-bidder-cash-injection-castle-water-pollution
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reposted by
Middle East Monitor
2 days ago
Gazaās historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Avivās two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted, Anadolu reports.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-isr...
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reposted by
Prof Bill McGuire
2 days ago
MAY reach 2.5C by the end of the century? What drivel is this?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cop30: calls for new urgency to talks as studies show global warming may reach 2.5C ā latest updates
As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/nov/17/cop30-belem-brazil-global-warming-latest-news-updates
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Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/peter-thiel-gets-out-of-dodge?r=1v0bdx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 days ago
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reposted by
Nadia Whittome MP
2 days ago
The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform. Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right. I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.
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reposted by
Jeremy Corbyn
2 days ago
Removing asylum support. Seizing belongings. Deporting entire families, including children. Labour are not just paving the path to a Reform government. Reform may as well already be in power. This government has no moral compass ā and it should be ashamed of its inhumanity.
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reposted by
Declassified UK
2 days ago
Our co-director
@markcurtis30.bsky.social
will speak at Goldsmiths (New Cross, London) this Wednesday: on how the UK media is covering up British foreign policy and how we build independent media. Free event š
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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How the UK News Media Cover Up Foreign Policy
A talk by Mark Curtis, founder of Declassified UK and Visiting Fellow in Goldsmiths' School of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (MCCS).
https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15638
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reposted by
PIK_climate
2 days ago
"The rate of warming is showing signs of accelerating" PIK Director Johan Rockstrƶm gives an analysis of the current situation on climate & planetary boundaries at
#COP30
. The data suggests the world is heading for global temperatures not seen in millions of years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...
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reposted by
Collateral Damage
2 days ago
They won't stop treating brown people like animals, so they try to normalize it. Letting them get away with it is up to us. We can bring them to justice.
#FreePalestine
#GazaHolocaust
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reposted by
Oliver
3 days ago
If you ever get a chance ask your local Reform candidate about whatever happened to the benefits of Brexit promised by Nigel Farage meme via Angel Stroyan
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reposted by
Middle East Monitor
2 days ago
Iranās Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said that the first site targeted by Israel during recent military tensions was a fuel production plant for Tehranās research nuclear reactor.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-ira...
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reposted by
Declassified UK
2 days ago
šNEW -- Israeli weapons firm set to close UK wing by Martin Williams Israelās state-owned arms company, Rafael, is disbanding its UK subsidiary following an investigation by Declassified.
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reposted by
Prof Bill McGuire
2 days ago
āWe are scapegoating asylum seekers for the failures and political divisions caused by successive governments in the last 15 years" A vile woman pushing senseless, barbaric policies This is the Labour psrty today
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Anglican bishop shaken āto the coreā by home secretaryās asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being āscapegoatedā for years of policy failures
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/anglican-bishop-home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-asylum-seeker-comments
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reposted by
New Internationalist
2 days ago
For a modest fee, El Salvadorās leader and self-declared 'world's coolest dictator' Nayib Bukele has offered to house not only deportees but āhomegrownā US citizens in his notorious maximum-Āsecurity mega-prison.
newint.org/human-rights...
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reposted by
Left Foot Forward
2 days ago
"Lord Bamford's latest political donation makes the point, yet again, that we need a cap on donations."
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Billionaire Tory donor and JCB chair Lord Bamford gives Reform UK £200,000
"Lord Bamford's latest political donation makes the point, yet again, that we need a cap on donations."
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/billionaire-tory-donor-and-jcb-chair-lord-bamford-gives-reform-uk-200000/
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First time I've heard of *that* happening!
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2 days ago
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reposted by
Middle East Monitor
2 days ago
Palestinian injured by Israeli gunfire near separation wall in occupied East Jerusalem
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Palestinian injured by Israeli gunfire near separation wall in occupied East Jerusalem
A Palestinian man was injured by Israeli gunfire on Monday in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, according to medics, Anadolu reports. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said in ā¦
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-palestinian-injured-by-israeli-gunfire-near-separation-wall-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/
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reposted by
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
2 days ago
As Israel's image collapses, US billionaires move to silence dissent -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-image-collapses-us-billionaires-move-silence-dissent
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As Israel's image collapses, US billionaires move to silence dissent
Facing record opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza, America's elites are seizing control of news and tech companies to suppress criticism and rescue a crumbling narrative
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-image-collapses-us-billionaires-move-silence-dissent
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reposted by
Jeremy Corbyn
2 days ago
Wes Streeting says striking NHS staff are āholding patients to ransomā. Wrong! Heās the one holding patients and the NHS to ransom, by refusing to give doctors the pay and jobs they deserve. To all our dedicated healthcare workers: thank you for all you do. Solidarity!
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reposted by
Prof Bill McGuire
3 days ago
Just four days of COP30 left If past COPs are anything to go by, they should be starting to panic about now, as they realise that they have nothing to put in their final communique
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reposted by
Zarah Sultana MP
3 days ago
Before my Question Time appearance, there was an attempt to sabotage the movement weāre building. But the stakes are too high. With inequality rising, child poverty deepening, migrants under attack & an emboldened far-right, we must keep fighting. Itās socialism or barbarism.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
2 days ago
Pro-Palestine campaigners appear in court in London -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pro-palestine-campaigners-appear-court-london
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Pro-Palestine campaigners appear in court in London
<article data-history-node-id="431582" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pro-palestine-campaigners-appear-court-london" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pro-palestine-campaigners-appear-court-london" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Pro-Palestine campaigners appear in court in London</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Six people accused of breaking into an Israel-based defence firm's UK site last year appeared in a UK court on Monday. </p> <p>A group of around two dozen protesters, holding banners and Palestinian flags, gathered at the gates leading to Woolwich Crown Court chanted "Free Palestine" outside.</p> <p>The six are accused of being part of a group who committed aggravated burglary, criminal damage and violent disorder at the premises of the Israel-based firm Elbit Systems in Bristol on 6 August 6, 2024.</p> <p>Samuel Corner, Jordan Devlin, Charlotte Head, Leona Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani and Zoe Rogers arrived shortly after 11am for the trial, which is expected to last 10 weeks.</p> </div> </div> </article>
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/pro-palestine-campaigners-appear-court-london
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reposted by
Naomi Klein
3 days ago
The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Carla Denyer
2 days ago
Huge numbers of young people are out of work - but this govt simply doesn't have the answers. We need real solutions like a National Nature Service which
@gndrising.bsky.social
are calling for - to give young people good quality employment while restoring our natural world.
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reposted by
Carla Denyer
3 days ago
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public wonāt notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
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Sarah Owen MP
3 days ago
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
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Interesting question about why these MP's go round trying to cause arguments with camera people in tow. Maybe they imagine they're gritty rather than petty?
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Tory MP Triggered By Football Fans
YouTube video by Novara Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHdi8m76fG4
2 days ago
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reposted by
Middle East Monitor
3 days ago
State-sanctioned Jewish-mob terror in the West Bank by Jamal Kanj
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State-sanctioned Jewish-mob terror in the West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian villages have become open fields for illegal Jewish settlers operating under the protection of the Israeli army. In recent weeks, organized Jewish mobs, some ā¦
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-state-sanctioned-jewish-mob-terror-in-the-west-bank/
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reposted by
Freedom Press
3 days ago
The British hunger strikers, held on remand for alleged offences linked to Palestine Action and all without conviction, say they will refuse food until Elbit Systems shuts its UK sites.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/i...
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Italian anarchist joins UK prison hunger strike - Freedom News
Solidarity action links Sanremo with UK detainees held on remand over Palestine Action cases ~ Blade Runner ~ Italian anarchist prisoner Luca Dolceā¦
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/17/italian-anarchist-joins-uk-prison-hunger-strike/
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Netpol
3 days ago
Expect more anti-protest laws coming in 2026: as ministers announce a new public order policing review framed around "abuse" of protest rights and free speech. Led by a former Director of Public Prosecutions, the "expert" behind the scenes is an ex senior police officer
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Review of public order and hate crime legislation
Lord Macdonald to lead review of public order and hate crime legislation.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/review-of-public-order-and-hate-crime-legislation
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'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/brexit-gdp-impact-damage-study-nber-400340/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOHo6JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5CGNhbGxzaXRlAjI1AAEeOocD07DvANibxPEchpiORy4rjP4j6tZ7nzsd2a9Uor8hSTVu7UPjj0dIkE0_aem_ZZHpoueLiAlhlhio5a5lpQ#py8ocnvoab9p2s6gguqznd8ceo9yr4v6g
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reposted by
Middle East Monitor
3 days ago
Israel releases nurse Tasneem al-Hums
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Israel releases nurse Tasneem al-Hums
Israeli forces released the Palestinian nurse Tasneem al-Hums on Sunday evening after detaining her for nearly six weeks. Family sources said that Tasneem, the daughter of detained doctor Marwan alā¦
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251117-israel-releases-nurse-tasneem-al-hums/
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reposted by
Richard Murphy
3 days ago
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 2: Understanding tax and āborrowingā
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 2: Understanding tax and āborrowingā
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/17/the-alternative-budget-2025-part-2-understanding-tax-and-borrowing/
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reposted by
Prem Sikka
3 days ago
Six out of every seven children in Newport are classified as living in poverty. Lives destroyed - govts impose austerity, wage/benefit cuts, fiscal rules, deindustrialization, oppose redistribution of income/wealth. No party has poverty reduction target.
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Inside the town where 6 out of 7 children grow up in poverty - and live in fear of homelessness
As ministers prepare to act on child poverty, families in the area are backing calls for the two-child cap on benefits to be scrapped, and even local children say they are worried about becoming homel...
https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-town-where-6-out-of-7-children-grow-up-in-poverty-and-live-in-fear-of-homelessness-13470171
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